…to abandon the former kinds of prayer too soon. So long as my convictions are not as yet deep, nor my detachment sufficiently marked, I have need that the patient and preserving action of considerations should make the light shine forth in my soul, should disengage my heart from created things, and excite it to acts of divine love and generous resolutions. When badly prepared for this prayer of simplicity, I cannot succeed in it. I am then like a schoolboy advanced to a class that is too high for him. –- ‘The Ways of Mental Prayer’